Stavanger Aftenblad (OSE:STA;lit. 'Stavanger Evening Paper') or simplyAftenbladet is a dailynewspaper based inStavanger,Norway, and owned bySchibsted Media Group.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Schibsted |
| Founder(s) | Lars Oftedal |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Political alignment | Christian-conservative |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Headquarters | Stavanger |
Norwegian owners held 42 percent of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015.[1]Stavanger Aftenblad is thus majority foreign-owned.
History and profile
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Stavanger Aftenblad was founded in 1893[2] by the priestLars Oftedal, and was for a long period a publication for theNorwegian Liberal Party. The paper is based in Stavanger[2] and is owned by the Media Norge,[3] a subsidiary of theSchibsted company.[4]
The online version ofStavanger Aftenblad had an English news service, aimed at the English speaking foreign community in Norway who were not fluent in the language, and international audiences interested in Norway. The English service closed in January 2009 due to the2008 financial crisis.[5]
The circulation ofStavanger Aftenblad was 70,000 copies in 2003.[6] The paper had a circulation of 68,186 copies in 2005.[2] Its circulation was 65,500 copies in 2009.[7]
See also
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edit- ^"Aksjonærer - Schibsted". Archived fromthe original on 7 November 2017.
- ^abc"The press in Norway".BBC. 20 February 2006. Retrieved24 January 2015.
- ^"Conditions for Media Norge Merger". Competition Authority. 4 November 2008. Retrieved20 January 2015.
- ^Sigurd Høst (1999)."Newspaper Growth in the Television Era. The Norwegian Experience"(PDF).Nordicom Review.1 (1). Retrieved31 December 2014.
- ^"Aftenbladet suspends English site. / The English version of Stavanger Aftenblad will no longer be updated due to the financial crisis". 15 January 2009.
- ^"World Press Trends"(PDF). Paris: World Association of Newspapers. 2004. Retrieved15 February 2015.
- ^Eli Skogerbø; Marte Winsvold (2011)."Audiences on the move? Use and assessment of local print and online newspapers"(PDF).European Journal of Communication.26 (3): 218. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 14 April 2012. Retrieved24 January 2015.